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Forum Post: The Enigma of Capital

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 4:01 p.m. EST by Courtney (111) from New York, NY
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I'm curious if anyone involved in the movement has read David Harvey's book The Enigma Of Capital?

The last chapter, "What is to be done, and who is going to do it?," seems to predict the Occupy Wall Street movement, and sketches out possibilities for a general ethos and set of actions that I think are parallel to the ones I'm hearing from some of the protesters.
Harvey published this book after the financial crisis--he outlines the kind of capital accumulation that has taken place in the last thirty years in the hands of the few- leading to high unemployment, displacement, dispossession, inequality. This was before any kind of popular concern over the bank bailouts had emerged. The last chapter asks what kind of anti-capitalist movement could conceivably emerge from all this. A lot of the things he proposes I see in the #OWS movement: he calls for "radical egalitarianism," which is what the GAs resemble to me. Anyways, highly recommended. It is on aaarg.

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